MANGO GROOVEToo long for me. I’m more used to doing lengths of the swimming pool.

BOGBRUSHWe started across the road from Leafy Glade. Took a left along the road and then a right into the village on the opposite side of the road to the Glade. One path merged into another as the intrepid hashers solved every cunning check devised by the history mare. First, MANGO lumbered into the lead. At the next check, WALKIE TALKY slinked to the front. Then STINGRAY with the crazed eyes of a man on a mission, bulldozed his way to the lead. Finally with an ironic quip of “ Thanks guys for marking the check.” EUNUCH hopped to the front. Meanwhile, with his metronomic stride sounding like an old grandfather clock, GUNPOWDWDER PLOD waddled along in the baggage train in the van – never too far away. “I did a hundred kilo crawl this morning.” he bleated vainly. Yours truly was trailing the main pack of grizzled Hash veterans by a sliver while somewhere in the background was the eerie presence of the mystery hare with his rhythmic slurping of the amber liquid like waves lapping on a ghostly hash beach.

Anyway, the trail meandered down to Ping Long Village and then the pack crossed over the Lam Tsuen Rood and returned by a circuitous but oft-travelled route back to Leafy Glade.

PRESIDENT GUNPOWDER PLODORAMA

You haven’t mentioned Dram.

BOGBRUSH

Well, if the inverse of the mystery hare is the hystery masher then that person was DRAM. Just like a Scot at the end of a night’s drinking, he managed to do a disappearing act. He is

adamant he did the WIMP’S but when the mystery hare was confronted with the question:

“Where was RAMBO’S – WIMP’S split? – He just chuckled, mysteriously, and DRAM had disappeared before the answer came.

PRESIDENT GUNPOWDER PLODORAMA

Any more down-downs from the floor.

SILENCE

BBC WORLD SERVICE

That’s the end of this hash mission.

BOGBRUSH

Wait. Wait a minute. Honour to the brave victor. With a late surge STINGRAY crawled over the finish line, his trembling hand outstretched for his slurp of life-giving Carlsberg.